 Letter written and signed by Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), an author, historian, and Unitarian minister descended from a distinguished American family. In his day one of the nation's most prominent men of letters, Hale may now be best remembered for two stories: “The Man Without a Country,” a patriotic pro-Union allegory of the then-raging U.S. Civil War, and “The Brick Moon,” generally considered to be the earliest known literary depiction of a man-made satellite.

With the present letter, Hale notifies an unidentified recipient of a planned meeting for an Ithaca church subscription committee, by way of a clearly written note on his Roxbury, MA, letterhead. This very nice example of his signature (here, “Edw. E. Hale”) on his stationery is also a pleasing reminder of the great author's commitment to good works throughout his life.

 Pickering publication of the bishop of Norwich'spersonal satires, originally printed in 1597 and 1598, and noted by the DNB as “the first collection of formal verse satires on the Latin model to be published in England.”

This imprint represents more than meets the eye: “This book was first published by W. & C. Tait, Edinburgh, 1824. Evidently Pickering bought a part of the edition and inserted his own title-page” (Keynes). Someone has inked “only 100 copies printed” on the bottom margin of the title-page.

Provenance: Bookplate of Allan D. MacDonald on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 Uncommon variant of the first edition, being a “reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with Richard Davis’s name in imprint” according to ESTC. Hammond was “a celebrated catechism writer” (DNB) and clergyman, called by some the father of English biblical criticism. Cawdrey, a prominent nonconformist, published A Diatribe, against Dr. Hammond on Superstition and Festivals in 1654; the present item was Hammond's response to that attack on three of his early tracts — including his defense of celebrating Christmas. The dispute between Hammond and Cawdrey lasted four years and produced several publications on both sides.

This variant is less common than the Davis imprint of the same year; WorldCat and ESTC locate only six U.S. holdings, one since deaccessioned.

Hanway, Jonas. Virtue in humble life: containing reflections on relative duties, particularly those of masters and servants ... Various anecdotes of the living and the dead: in two hundred and nine conversations, between a father and his daughter, amidst rural scenes ... with a manual of devotion. London: Printed for Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Sewel, near the Royal-Exchange; and Bew, in Pater-noster-Row, 1777. 4to (28.4 cm, 11.2"). 2 vols. in 1. I: Frontis., [2] ff., xvii, [1], vii, [1], 323, [1] p., [2] ff., pp. 325 (i.e., 327)–411, [1] p. II: Frontis., vii, [1], 523, [1] p.$1200.00

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 This is the second edition offather-daughter dialogues intended to strengthenservants' morals by myriad examples and advice; it was first published as an octavo series in 1774, using much the same content as Hanway's earlier Farmer's Advice to his Daughter (1770). The author (1712–86) was a merchant and philanthropist known not only for his charity, but also for regularly sporting both a sword and an umbrella at a time when neither was fashionable, and for tipping attractive female servants especially well. (He was a prolific author, too.)

Chapters include conversations between daughter Mary and her father on the utmost importance of prayer, sacraments, and charity; the “reciprocal duties of masters and servants”; the “necessity of subordination”; and “caution to female domestics against dancing-meetings,” among many, many other topics large and small.

The text is handsomely printed double-column in roman and italic, withtwo finely engraved frontispieces signed by E. Edwards and J. Hall, one at the beginning of each volume: the first of a father and daughter sitting beneath a tree; the second of Hanway seated on a rock, contemplating a book and skull beneath the motto “Never Despair” — the author's own, which he adopted after a particularly grueling merchant voyage for the Russia Company in 1743. Each volume also has its own title-page, the Manual of Devotion, Consisting ofPrayers, Psalms, Hymns, and Lessons that appears between the two having its own as well.

 ESTC T93949; Goldsmiths-Kress 11624. On Hanway, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary speckled calf, boards framed in a gilt Greek key pattern, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; recently rebacked, spine gilt extra preserving original gilt-tooled green morocco label and adding a new red one gilt with author and title. Boards stained and scratched in a few places, corners bumped, chipping leather glued down; marbled endpapers repaired with photocopy segments of the original design. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, front endpaper, and rear pastedown (only). Mild to moderate foxing on a handful of leaves in each volume, and one small circular stain affecting eight or so pages in first, while pages mostly clean and bright; short closed tear to bottom margin of one leaf in second volume. Nice. (31089)

An Uplifting Chapbook . . .

Happy cottagers; or the breakfast, dinner, and supper: to which is added, an account of a shepherd's boy reading to a poor widow. London: Pr. by Augustus Applegath & Edward Cowper; sold by F. Collins; and Evans & Sons, n.d. (ca. 1825?). 12mo. 8 pp. $25.00

 Two pious tales of poor but good people and their search for Christ. A happy cottager and her two well-to-do guests is the subject of the woodcut on the chapbook's title-page.

 Uncut, unopened. Sewing perished. (8436)

Religion Wantsto Be Free

Harris, William. Observations on national establishments in religion in general, and on the establishment of Christianity in particular. Together with some occasional remarks on the conduct and behaviour of the teachers of it. London: S. Bladon, 1767. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). [2], 60 pp. (half-title lacking).$450.00

 First edition of this anti-establishment rebuttal of John Rotheram's Essay on Establishment in Religion. Harris argues against nationalized forms of both Catholic and Protestant churches, and in favor of freedom of religious dissent.

 Religious “gift book” in name only, here reissued from the 1856 edition, with an engraved frontispiece of a throne under a rainbow overlooking people praying on earth by S.A. Schoff after Hammatt Billings. Tepper aptly notes about a similar edition that “it is 500 pages of exhaustive sermonizing on the love of Christ. . . . this is an interesting example of the lengths publishers would go to inriding the coattails of the gift book fad.”

 Not in Faxon, nor Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books; for another year, see Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 100. Bound as above, recently well rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers, gently rubbed, small sticker on spine. Light age-toning and foxing (especially around the frontispiece as usual), with occasional other spotting or staining (some perhaps in press); a sound copy representingan interesting phenomenon in marketing. (37262)

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Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.$1500.00

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 First edition of this history of the Charterhouse, a charitable hospital and (eventually) elite boys' school founded by Thomas Sutton on the site of a former Carthusian monastery. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sutton, a copperplate engraving of a Carthusian monk done by F.H. Van Houe, and an allegorical copperplate engraving of the House of Prayer. It is partly printed in black-letter.

 First U.S. edition, following the Edinburgh first of 1807, of this laudatory biography written by a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Blair, a Scottish preacher, critic, and rhetorician, is best remembered for his sermons (which were praised by Dr. Johnson) and his involvement in the Ossian debate, in which he defended the poems’ authenticity.

The History of Moses; giving an account of his birth, his being found by Pharaoh's daughter in the ark of bulrushes, and the miracles wrought by him for the deliverance of the children of Israel. Embellished with Cuts. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo. 24 pp.$150.00

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 Title-page with woodcut border and a woodcut vignette of the Pharaoh's daughter finding the infant Moses; in the text are14 splendid half-page woodcuts, one repeating the vignette and one demonstrating curious “issues” with the block.

“[No.] 151" is printed at the foot of the title.

 Original self wrappers; removed from a nonce volume. Very good. (17556)

 Four-plus pages here offer the writer'svery detailed accountof his own, personal observations of the “phenomenon,” which had nothing to do with glaciers but rather represented a period of extraordinary cold that producedice formations of unusual (and beautiful) sorts.

 First edition: Treatise in favor of preserving a high level of public credit, segueing from that topic to the tangled web of contemporary politics, religion, and finance. The piece is attributed to Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester.

 ESTC T831; Kress 2665. Sewn, edges untrimmed, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with numeral in lower margin inked in an early hand. Upper edges slightly darkened; a few small spots but mostly clean. (6752)

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Hoadly, Benjamin. Queries recommended to the authors of the late discourse of free thinking ... the second edition. London: James Knapton, 1713. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 31, [1] pp.$300.00

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 Second edition of this response to Anthony Collins's much-debated Discourse of Free-thinking. Hoadly was an Anglican clergyman who served as bishop of Bangor; four years after his entry into the Freethinking controversy with the present rebuttal of what he considered atheist arguments made by Collins, he initiated the Bangorian Controversy with a sermon regarding the worldly authority of the church versus that of the state.

Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”

 Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)

 Tross's careful and elegant 19th-century edition: The Dance of Death concept experienced a revival in French Romantic literature of the era and the main text here, in French and Latin, is prefaced by Anatole de Montaiglon's introduction (in French). The reproductions of Holbein's initials were done by Heinrich Loedel, and each page is given anexquisite death-themed, wood-engraved border by Léon le Maire after designs from a Book of Hours printed by Simon Vostre. The alphabet is represented (excluding J and U) by magnificent engraved historiated letters, five of which are repeated.

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 Bound as above and in lovely condition; extremely minor spots of rubbing and scraping to boards, one raised band with a short cut(?) and a sliver of leather lost. An overall wonderful copy of this beautiful reprint. (37923)

 Uncommon edition of the work called Elucidarius: Based in part on an 11th-century treatise on theology and world history written in Latin by an enigmatic monk living in England at the time of his composition of his treatise, this German vernacular compendium of general knowledge appears here not only much expanded beyond that original work but alsoreformed and secularized to some extent, covering geography (including a reference to America), cosmography, and natural history as well as religion — making this one of the earliest such extensive and encyclopedic works written in German.

While there were a number of Frankfurt editions of this and Egenolff and his heirs themselves issued it several times, the present 1584 printing appears to be one of the scarcest: WorldCat reportsonly one U.S. institutional location, and that copy is incomplete. The edition features a title-page printed in red and black, with a vignette of a man balancing an armillary sphere on his back and hoisting a compass flanked by a male and a female grotesque; the text is printed in an attractive black letter and opens withtwo leaves of full-page woodcut illustrations (God pulling Eve from Adam's side, a set of twenty monstrous humanoids from around the world, a map of the world done after one in the Nuremberg Chronicle, and a scene of a scholar pointing towards the sun and moon). Other woodcut illustrations that range from a quarter of a page to full-page in size include astronomical diagrams, emblematic scenes including cosmological schematics, Atlas supporting the heavens, a well-dressed gentleman making use of a measuring rod, and a beautiful, elaborated version of the Egenolff device on the colophon page in which the printer's characteristic flaming, sacrificed heart is shown between apposite views of Abraham and Isaac and Balaam and his ass.

In supplement to the main portion, following it, is Jakob Köbel's “Bauren Compassz” (Bauern-Compass, or Farmer's Compass).

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 One of six different editions printed in 1573 describing the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre as told by an enraged French Huguenot jurist who unintentionally avoided it due to a teaching assignment at the University of Bourges. According to the ESTC, the six editions were produced by four printers, one edition in Basel by T. Guarin, one in La Rochelle by B. Berton, and four in London by Henry Bynneman or W. Williamson, all but one bearing a false location. This offering is an altered version of an earlier printing with two leaves reprinted and one reimposed to remove any mention of Bynneman.

Hotman here writes under the pseudonym of Ernestus Varamundus, although the work is also sometimes erroneously attributed to Théodore de Bèze and Hubert Languet. In England, Hotman was the main narrative source for the first, “historical” portion of Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris (Paul Kocher, PMLA {1941}, 349–68).

Binding: Early 19th-century speckled calf, spine compartments gilt-stamped and one with a gilt red leather label; covers with gilt double rules, board edges and turn-ins with gilt single rules, all edges gilt. Signed with stamp by Roger de Coverly, an apprentice of Zaehnsdorf. A very pretty “container” for some very un-pretty history.

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Bute's Cardiff Castle on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

A rather uncommon edition, with searches of WorldCat, NUC, and COPAC revealing only one U.S. copy (Huntington Library).

 ESTC S104240; STC 13845. Bound as above, gentle rubbing, leather a little flaking, joints refurbished and covers solidly attached. Bookplate as above; title-page dust-soiled with one small inked word, a faded ownership signature, one small pencil mark. Light pencilling and some chipping to endpapers, general light to moderate age-toning with an occasional spot and some pages unevenly trimmed; one gathering with very light, limited waterstain to lower margin. An important work in an unusual edition and an attractive copy. (37745)

 First edition: Latin translation of Huet's Traité philosophique de la faiblesse de l'esprit humain, which had been published in 1723. Much lauded as a scholar, scientist, antiquarian, and author, the Bishop of Avranches was also a philosopher who published an extensive critique of Descartes's writings. The present work was his last, and published posthumously; in it, he describes the failings of human reason and logic and argues that skepticism enables faith-based religion. In addition to being one of Huet's best-known philosophical statements, the Traité philosophique isof medical interest for the author's theory of the nature of the mind. The title-page is printed in red and black, bearing an elegant engraved vignette of a printer's shop done by B. Picart.

[Hughes, John, & John Arbuthnot]. Charon; or, the ferry-boat. A vision. Dedicated to the Swiss Count —. London: printed; and sold by W. Lewis near Covent-Garden, J. Brotherton and W. Meadows at the Black-Bull in Cornhill, J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, and A. Dodd at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, 1719. 8vo (18.8 cm; 7.375"). [12], 26 pp.$250.00

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 A recommendation to reject earthly temptations and rewards told through a dreamlike description of mortals travelling to the afterlife with Charon, attributed to librettist John Hughes and satirist John Arbuthnot. The text is dedicated to John James Heidegger (1666–1749), a man known as the Swiss Count and responsible for promotingmasquerades in London.

This copy complete with the half-title.

 ESTC T30532. Removed from a nonce volume, first and last few leaves delicately attached; light to moderate age-toning, pencilled date on margin of half-title. (37193)

 Translation of “Parte primera: El reyno jesuitico del Paraguay,” originally published in vol. IV of the Coleccion general de documentos (Madrid: Imprenta real de la Gaceta, 1768–70). It isa vitriolic anti-Jesuit diatribe by a man who had been expelled from the Society of Jesus, not once, but twice! A definite “other side of the coin” from Father Lozano's account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, and originally written in Spanish, Ibanez's work proved popular and by 1774 had appeared in German, French, and this Italian translation. Of course, at that time the Jesuits were hot news, having been expelled in 1767 from the Spanish empire and made to find refuge in Italy and elsewhere.

Some copies have a frontispiece but not this one. Of the nine copies we trace to U.S. libraries, we know that at least two lack the frontispiece, but others may also. We have checked the OPAC records for the other seven but because all seven are clearly copy cataloguing we have to wonder about their accuracy.

Binding: 20th-century half dark green crushed morocco with marbled paper sides in a swirl pattern and top edge gilt, signed “Alfred Farez” who was active 1909 to ca. 1930. Unidentified owner's gilt monogram at base of spine. Binding signed “Alfred Farez” who was active 1909 to ca. 1930.

 Sabin 58530; Streit, Bibliotheca missionum, III, 932; Palau 56514; Maggs, Bibliotheca Americana, I, 887. Bound as above with old “wall paper” wrappers bound in. Title-page with a very little light soiling and one other leaf with a single spot likewise light; text notably clean and with good margins. A very good copy. (34707)

 First edition of an Anglican clergyman's response to Francis Blackburne's controversial Confessional, encouraging “men of interest and spirit . . . to act together, as occasion may require, for the dignity and support of the present Establishment.”

 Text on this small personal-use manuscript is from the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria (25 November) and begins “Sanctissima atque piissima Virgo & Martyr, tuae castae Virginitati commendo me . . . “ The large six-line initial at the beginning of the text isan “O” in shades of red, green, blue, and bisque, nicely highlighted in gold. The top, bottom, and fore-margins bear vine and flower decoration in those same colors, also with gold highlights. The verso has one two-line initial in blue with red filigree ornamentation.

 Clean and handsome, although the marginal vine work has been trimmed with loss; an attractive, bright example of illuminated medieval manuscript embellishment. (35962)

 Children's collection of poems, recitations, playlets, dances, stories, and songs about thankfulness, especially thankfulness for various seasonal delights. This is the sole edition (while WorldCat appears to list a 1923 printing, further exploration shows that to be a data entry error based on this edition's 1932 copyright date).

 Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)

 Three days before the promulgation of the Plan of Iguala, Iturbide wrote to the bishop of Guadalajara assuring him of the importance of Catholicism as the religion of Mexico in the independent Mexico that Iturbide was striving to achieve. The text of the letter was first published in Puebla, with, apparently, onlyone known copy surviving (at Condumex; Gavito 899).

Of this Mexico City reprinting WorldCat locatesno copies in the U.S., one in Mexico and one in Britain. The copy recorded in the Sutro printed catalogue is not listed in the Sutro OPAC.

 Sutro p. 242. Old folds. Evidence of having been folded and bound in an 8vo volume; a portion of the inner margin excised to allow for that folding and binding-in. Very good. (35856)

 First edition of this strongly worded rebuttal of Armand-Gaston Camus's 1790
pamphlet on the execution of laws relating to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy — of which
Camus was one of the most vociferous defenders. The author was a lawyer and Jansenist abbé.

Johnson, Samuel. An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to the throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it. London: Printed for the author, 1692. Small 4to (20 cm; 8"). 62 pp., [1] f.$350.00

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 Author Johnson (1649–1703) was a clergyman and pamphleteer who spent time in prison ostensibly for having written his very popular Julian the Apostate, but really because his patron, Lord Russell, was executed as a conspirator in the Rye House matter thus painting him with the same brush — and because he could not pay a fine of 500 marks.

“In 1692 Johnson published what he hoped would be recognized as the quintessential interpretation of the events of 1688. His pamphlet, An argument proving that the abrogation of King James by the people of England . . . was according to the constitution of the English government, went into five editions in 1693 alone, and was translated into Dutch. Even Johnson's enemies recognized that this latest ‘pamphlet of renown has fill'd every tongue in town'” (Canonical Statesman's Grand Argument Discussed, 3, quoted in the ODNB).

This is a copy of the issue with the one-line imprint and the correct pagination. The last leaf is a “catalogue” of the author's books.

 First edition in Welsh of The Catholic doctrine of a Trinity proved by above an hundred short and clear arguments. The true first edition appeared at Oxford in 1756; the author (William Jones, M.A., F.R.S.) was “Rector of Paston, in Northamptonshire, and Minister of Nayland, in Suffolk.” The work is divided into four main sections: 1. The Divinity of Christ. 2. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. 3. The Plurality of Persons. 4. The Trinity in Unity.

Jones also here delivers “a few Reflections, occasionally interspersed, upon some of the Arian Writers, particularly Dr. S. Clarke: To which is added, A letter to the common people, in Answer to some Popular Arguments against The Trinity” (from the English-language title).

 ESTC T116044. 20th-century quarter tan calf with gray paper sides. Title-page with brown stains and a bit of chipping; the occasional stain or bit of foxing elsewhere and top corners bumped at the end; two leaves holed, one with a small piercing that takes a letter or two and the other with a paper flaw that affects several words. Else a good to very good copy. (37040)

American Acid-StainedAutumnal Binding  Spine with a DISTINCTIVE Stamp

Josephus, Flavius.The genuine works of Flavius Josephus; translated by William Whiston, A.M. New York: Published by William Borradaile, 1825. 12mo (18 cm; 7"). Vol. 6 only of 6. Frontis., 317, [1] pp.$85.00

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 A marvelous example of an American acid-stained autumnal binding with a gilt spine extra. The boards are tooled with a gilt double rule border around their perimeter; inside that border and almost touching the inner rule is a blind-impressed roll of flowers and leaves. The spine is richly tooled in gilt with a variety of single rules, rolls, and a handsome, large, finely detailed stamp used twice. A black leather spine label offers author, title, and volume number; the autumnal colors of the binding overall are red, pale yellow, brown, and green.

The stamp so effectively used here has been identified as one engraved by Samuel Dodd, 19th-century bookbinders' tool maker of Bloomfield, NJ.

The text present is preceded by a good engraving by Maverick entitled “People of Masada.”

 Shoemaker 21077; Rosenbach, Jewish, 276; Dodd's stamp identified by scholar Steve Beare. Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside); browning to endpapers from glue action and ownership stamp on front free one. Some foxing. Vol. 6 only: Sold as a binding and very good as such. (35830)

Antiquities of the JewsIllustrated

Josephus, Flavius. The works of Flavius Josephus. Containing, I. The life of Josephus, as written by himself. II. The antiquities of the Jewish people; with a defense of those antiquities, in answer to Apion. III. The history of the martyrdom of the Maccabees; and the wars of the Jews with the neighbouring nations till the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman power. IV. Account of Philo's ambassy from the Jews of Alexandria, to the Emperor Caius Caligula. London: Pr. for Fielding & Walker by Henri Lion, 1777–78. 4to (27.2 cm, 10.75"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., 719, [1] pp. (lacking list of subscribers); 44 (1 fold.) plts., 7 maps (1 fold.). II: Frontis., [2], 644, [28 (index)] pp.; 16 (of 17) plts.$875.00

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 First edition, “Newly Translated from the Original Greek, by Ebenezer Thompson, D.D. and William Charles Price, L.L.D.” Josephus (b. A.D. 37) provides one of the very few non-biblical sources of Jewish history; the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, though noting the author's lack of prestige among Talmudic rabbis and his tendency to “omit and add” where he saw fit, says, “Writing a history of the Jews which non-Jews would read and believe, Josephus was an innovator in bringing together references to the Jews to be found in non-Jewish histories” (1942 ed., VI, 200). The 1910 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia adds that these works are “our only sources for many historical events . . . the value of the statements is enhanced by the insertion of dates which are otherwise wanting, and by the citation of authentic documents which confirm and supplement the Biblical narrative.”

The two volumes are illustrated with a total of69 copper-engraved plates(out of 70 called for), including a number of maps, all engraved by several different hands after the work of various artists.

 Jeremiah Joyce (1763–1816) was a Unitarian minister noted for his popular scientific writings who was imprisoned for a while on a charge of treasonable practices before being found not guilty. Here Joyce defends the miraculous elements in
Christianity, summarizing the argument of The Evidences of Christianity by William Paley (1743–1805), Archdeacon of Carlisle. This is the second of two editions listed by ESTC (first, 1795), and it israre. We were able to trace only one copy via ESTC, NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, and RLIN.

 ESTC T77439. On Joyce see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXX, 219–19. On Paley, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIII, 101–107. Recent wrappers. Lightly age toned with a few instances of shallow chipping.

 Uncommon first edition of this English translation of Fray Juan de Santa María's Tratado de República y policía christiana, published in 1615. A Christian perspective on the powers and responsibilities of monarchs, the work was inspired by the Franciscan author's opposition to the government of the Duke of Lerma. The English rendition was often assigned to Edward Blount (who signed the dedication), but is now generally considered the work of scholar and poet James Mabbe, known for his translations of Cervantes and other works of Spanish literature and theology.

The title-page here is a cancel, changing the publisher from Edward Blount to Richard Collins. The work was additionally issued in the same year with yet another title-page, under the title, Policy Unveiled: Wherein may be Learned the Order of True Policie in Kingdomes and Commonwealths, the Matters of Justice, and Government. . . .

Uncommon: ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only 9 U.S. holdings.

 ESTC S107911; STC (2nd ed.) 14831. Period-style calf framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Lacks initial blank leaf, as is the case with virtually all copies. Two leaves with tattered outer edges, one leaf with small hole affecting a few letters; pages with some moderate offsetting, a few browned. (25084)

 Principal edition of the collected works of Saint Justin Martyr (ca. 100–165), “much the greatest figure” of Christian apologists since the Apostles (NCE). The first Latin translation of his works did not appear until 1554. This is theauthoritative editionedited by Prudent Maran (1683–1762), who reordered the works so that Justin's Dialogue with Trypho follows his two apologies, according to the original sequence. Only these three documents, which survive in later manuscripts, are surely his; however many other works are attributed to Justin. The present text contains the Dialogue, Apology I–II, and more, with biographical documents appended.

The text, in Latin and Greek, is divided into two sections: a preface in 15 short chapters, and the main text. The former is printed in roman and italic with nice woodcut head- and tailpieces, and one historiated woodcut initial. Sidenotes, footnotes, and woodcut ornaments like those in the former section enhance the main text, which is printed double column in parallel Latin and Greek, with two handsome engraved initials on the first page below a finely engraved vignette by J. B. Guélard (fl. ca. 1730) after a drawing by A. Humblot (fl. ca. 1740). The title-page, printed in red and black, has an engraved device by [Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste] de Poilly (1707–80). This copy also has a half-title page.

 Brunet, III, 623 (“Bonne édition”); Graesse, III, 515; NCE 8: 94–95 and online (St. Justin Martyr). Contemporary treed calf triple-ruled in blind on covers, spine gilt extra with author and title gilt to red morocco spine label, board edges with gilt double-rule, marbled endpapers in a stone pattern and matching marbled edges, emerald green ribbon place holder. Upper joint starting with volume strong despite this and its large size; boards scuffed, corners bumped and rubbed revealing boards; stains on pastedowns and endpapers from underlying turn-ins of the binding. Light foxing in a few places, thumbsoiling, and occasional small stains; one leaf with a corner torn away, another with a natural paper flaw, a few leaves creased. A good copy of avery imposing book. (30647)